TTile Streak

How to play

  1. Type any ten-letter word and press Enter.
  2. Read the tiles:
    • Green: right letter, right spot.
    • Yellow: the letter is in the word, in a different spot.
    • Gray: the letter is not in the word.
  3. Find the word within six guesses.

Repeated letters follow one rule: each letter in the answer can only color one tile in your guess. If the answer has one R and you guess three, only one of them lights up.

Why ten letters plays differently

Ten letters is long enough that a word usually carries more than one recognizable part: a prefix, a root and a suffix, sometimes all three. That helps, because you can often place a whole chunk from a single guess. It also hurts, because the same familiar parts show up across many different words, so two candidates can look almost identical until your last guess.

Repeated letters are common at this length, and not always the obvious kind. A word like STRAWBERRY (an example only, never an answer here) repeats one letter three times over, which is easy to undercount if you are only half watching the tiles.

Tips for ten-letter words

Cover both ends of the word first. A strong opener tests letters from the start and the end, since ten-letter words often carry their clearest part at one edge, not the middle.

Count carefully once a letter shows up twice. At ten letters, a letter appearing three times is not rare. If your found letters fall short of ten, look for one you have undercounted.

Try a guess that could not be the answer. With three or four candidates left, a guess built to separate them beats guessing one candidate at a time.

Do not fear an uncommon letter. Ten-letter words draw from a wide vocabulary, so letters like C, G and P show up more than you might expect from shorter games.

Keep the keyboard in view. Gray letters on the keyboard are your cheat sheet for what not to type, and at ten letters there is a lot to track without it.

Give the middle guesses a job. Once your opener has colored a few tiles, do not guess words that merely feel plausible. Pick a guess that would tell two shapes apart, even if it cannot be the answer itself.

A quick example

Say your first guess is IMPORTANCE (an example only, never an answer here).

  • I turns yellow: there is an I, but not in the first spot.
  • M and P turn gray.
  • O turns green: it belongs in the fourth spot.
  • R, T, A, N and C turn gray, and E turns green in the tenth spot.

Your next guess should keep O in spot four and E in spot ten, include an I somewhere other than spot one, and avoid M, P, R, T, A, N and C. One guess has already ruled out seven letters and placed two more.

Daily and unlimited

The Daily ten-letter word is the same for everyone today and counts toward your streak. When you finish, you can share a grid of colors, with no letters in it.

Unlimited gives you a new ten-letter word every time. Use it to test openers and hard mode before tomorrow's daily.

Try another length

longest one here.

  • 32 boards if ten letters on one board feels too easy.

Questions

How many guesses do I get?

Six. The same as every length here, which is what makes ten letters harder: more possible words, no extra tries to find them.

Is a 10-letter word game harder than 9 letters?

Usually. Each guess reveals more letters, but the list of possible answers grows too, and ten-letter words are long enough to stack two or three word parts together, which hides where one ends and the next begins.

Can I play more than one 10-letter puzzle a day?

Yes. Switch to the Unlimited tab and choose ten letters for a new word every time you finish. Unlimited games do not affect your daily streak.

What words can be the answer?

Common ten-letter English words. Plurals ending in S, proper nouns and offensive words are never answers, but any valid ten-letter word works as a guess.

Does hard mode work here?

Yes. Turn it on in Settings before your first guess and every letter you find must be used in later guesses.